Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State has revealed that, despite traps set for him by his predecessor, the state has been freed from bondage following the prayers of religious leaders and residents.
Adeleke made this known on Tuesday in Osogbo at the 2024 state prayer event, affirming that the state interdenominational prayer held in 2023 was answered by God.
His words: “In those turbulent days, we had sought the Lord’s help to calm the troubled waters of state governance. We fervently prayed for divine victory as we entered office in a deeply hostile environment. We cried to the Lord to rescue the state from those hell-bent on truncating the will of the people. Those were troubling days for our dear state.
“Today, I am overjoyed to stand before you to proclaim that our state is free from the bonds of the past. Through the prayers of the just, the people of God secure victory, salvation, and redemption. A year after fervent pleas to our dear creator, we all feel and experience the hand of God in our lives and the governance of our state. My dear people of Osun State, ours was and will continue to be a God-guided leadership.
“My dear people of faith, I have personal confessions to make. In the past year, I have directly experienced divine guidance in making state decisions. On several occasions, God Almighty was my instructor in deciding on key issues. When I told you I govern with the fear of God, it was not a joke. Our leadership is a product of divine plan and manifestation.
“The signs are everywhere, even for our political opponents to see. I will share some of the examples with you all. When I assumed the governorship of our dear state, many serious problems existed. Such issues appeared to have defied all solutions. My predecessor deliberately added petrol to the fire by laying several boobytraps before he left office. Nobody expects solutions from us. The thoughts of detractors were the expectation of failure.
“But because we have a God who does not fail His beloved ones, doors opened where none existed. The governance space witnessed policy innovations and implementation, which provided answers to knotty state policy questions. Because we have a God who props up His favoured and chosen ones, our government successfully reset the button of the state public service, frontally addressed workers’ welfare, put a smile on the faces of pensioners, restored local governance, implemented an infrastructure agenda, and set the tone for sustainable governance.”
The interdenominational prayer event, which was held to usher in the new year, was attended by religious leaders, traditional rulers, and the state’s civil servants.
